Single Review – Liam Gallagher – For What It’s Worth

Liam Gallagher’s third single, from forthcoming debut solo album ‘As You Were’ due for release October 6th, written with Simon Aldred, see’s the Mancunian taking another introspective look at his life so far. Opening line, ‘In my defence all my intentions were good,’ sets the scene for the tracks med-tempo outpouring of significantly calmed emotions. Though never quite a full out apology, ‘Seems that I’ve forgot just what I was fighting for but underneath my skin, there’s a fire within still burning,’ overall the track’s theme feels pretty sincere. Liam’s love it or hate it, though the majority agree, iconic vocal grates mellowly across a fairly remorseful lyric. Instrumentally there is an obvious echo of past sorrowful belter, ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’. Within this landscape of the past, lines like, the Lennon-esque, ‘The first bird to fly gets all the arrows,’ which may be simply a reference to leaving home, or being the older of this imagined conversation, but with a track that feels this much like a public statement, or closer a declaration of humanity amongst media fuelled madness, it’s hard to avoid hoping it’s in reference to a certain high flying bird. But whoever Liam’s words are directed towards ‘For What It’s Worth’ is well worth attention.

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